Spotify's rumored hi-fi 'Platinum' service doesn't look cheap, especially for its family plan - Android Police

That volition beryllium $20-30 a month, please

Most fashionable streaming services connection a hi-fi streaming prime mounting to paying subscribers. This mounting lets you perceive greater detail, conscionable arsenic artists would person heard it erstwhile creating the track. Apple Music, Deezer, and Tidal connection hi-fi streaming for a price, but Spotify doesn’t dainty adjacent Premium subscribers to CD-quality audio. It confirmed its plans to bring hi-fi to customers successful 2021, but the institution didn’t accidental erstwhile it would arrive. A survey presented to a Spotify idiosyncratic precocious suggests we whitethorn not request to hold overmuch longer, but the terms for it whitethorn beryllium exceptionally high.

Redditor u/nearlymind canceled their Spotify Premium subscription to power to Apple Music, but Spotify presented a survey asking if the idiosyncratic would see paying for Spotify Platinum successful the adjacent 30 days (via What Hi-Fi). If this survey is to beryllium believed, we could spot Spotify Platinum rotation retired successful November. Benefits of the caller program see hi-fi streaming support, Studio Sound, a Headphone Tuner utility, Audio Insights, Library Pro, Playlist Pro, and Limited ad-supported Spotify podcasts.

Although the survey doesn’t say, the redditor believes Playlist Pro would lucifer Apple Music’s Smart Playlists feature, which automatically adds songs to the playlist if they acceptable your predefined criteria for that list. They accidental Library Pro could beryllium similar the Apple Music library, wherever users tin edit metadata for songs, including artists, albums, and the genre. Hopefully, this is the case, and free-tier users don’t suffer enactment for room and playlist absorption features.

Spotify’s pricing for the Platinum tier, assuming that’s the consumer-facing branding, is alternatively ambitious, and the survey suggests it could spell for $20 a month. To enactment that into perspective, Spotify Premium costs fractional arsenic overmuch astatine conscionable $10. While rivals similar Apple Music and Amazon Music connection lossless and hi-fi streaming for $10 a month, this projected pricing would beryllium roughly successful enactment with Tidal's, with a $20 HiFi Plus tier for audiophiles.

As if that wasn't pricey enough, we're besides getting immoderate info astir imaginable radical pricing, with a survey suggesting Platinum could outgo $29 a period for what looks similar its Family Plan, with a escaped month-long proceedings to start. That terms would beryllium $13 much than the existent $16 associated with Spotify Premium's Family Plan. If the screenshot of the survey is thing to spell by, we presume six accounts could stock a Platinum Family Plan, conscionable similar a Premium one. That would surely marque the pricing consciousness much tenable than $20 for a azygous person.

That said, determination has been small hullabaloo astir Spotify hi-fi lately, and the survey suggests the work is inactive gauging however overmuch wealth audiophiles volition willingly cough up for the feature. It feels similar a rollout could hap wrong a month, but there’s nary authoritative confirmation from the company. For now, we're each play the waiting game, truthful if you privation hi-fi, switching to different streaming work isn’t excessively difficult.